For days
Burkina Faso
has been bloodied by
clashes and
sudden attacks attributed to suspected
jihadists.
At least
eighteen people have been killed so far
in the north of the country: local and military sources report.
To underline the climate of insecurity and instability that reigns in Ouagadougou and in the other cities of the country, several
hundred people took to the streets
in the last few hours
to protest
against the wave of jihadist attacks that overwhelmed him.
"A terrorist attack claimed the lives of
six civilians in Alga
," said an internal security source.
"The terrorists, who arrived in large numbers, attacked the nearby village of Boulounga and the gold mining site of Alga," added a resident, confirming the same toll.
Last Friday, however, the death of ten policemen
was reported
, killed in an attack carried out overnight by suspected jihadists in the north of the country, near the border with Niger.
"A peripheral outpost of the gendarmerie
in Seytenga
, in the province of Séno, was targeted by terrorists last night," said a source, communicating a provisional death toll.
The previous day, again, it was the turn of
a soldier and a civilian
, also
killed
by unidentified gunmen.
The attack, also in the north of the country,
against a gold mine
, as a security source said under conditions of anonymity.
The attack took place before dawn on the Karma mine, near Ouahigouya, with "several armed men, probably terrorists" who launched a raid on the security base of the plant, the same source added.
Five people were also injured in
the blitz
, two seriously.
One miner said the attack lasted nearly an hour and employees were evacuated.
The Sahel country
has been fighting for almost seven years against jihadists
from neighboring Mali and who have caused the death of over two thousand people, displacing about 1.8 million with attacks concentrated mainly in the northern and eastern part of the nation, affecting the economy and especially the mining industry.
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Protests in Burkina Faso